Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu (1689–1755)
摘要
The comparison between Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles de Montesquieu (1689–1755) did not originate in the twentieth century, but was already made by Tocqueville’s contemporaries, who saw in the author of the Démocratie en Amérique a new Montesquieu (OC XIII, 1, 274, FN). After Tocqueville had given his inaugural speech at the Académie française on April 21, 1842, where he had taken over the seat of the Count of Cessac, Mathieu Louis Molé responded to him.